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Lily Collins

Lily Jane Collins (born 18 March 1989) is an English-American actress, model, and writer. The daughter of English musician Phil Collins, and an American mother, Jill Tavelman, she was born in Surrey and moved to Los Angeles as a child. Her first screen role was at the age of two in the BBC series Growing Pains. She went on to study broadcast journalism at the University of Southern California, and as a teenager, wrote for Seventeen magazine, Teen Vogue, and The Los Angeles Times. She was named International Model of the Year by Spain's Glamour magazine after being selected by Chanel to wear one of their dresses at the Hotel de Crillon in 2007. In 2008, she was named Newest Red Carpet Correspondent and One to Watch by Young Hollywood.

In 2009, Collins appeared in two episodes of the teen drama series 90210, including the first season's finale. Collins was one of 20 women named by Maxim magazine as one of the Hottest Daughters of Rock Stars in 2009.[24] In 2009, Collins co-starred in the film The Blind Side as Collins Tuohy, the daughter of Sandra Bullock's character Leigh Anne Tuohy. In 2011, she played the warrior priest's daughter Lucy in the thriller Priest, opposite Paul Bettany.[25][26]MTV Networks' NextMovie.com named her one of the Breakout Stars to Watch for in 2011.[27] She co-starred in the 2011 action film Abduction with Taylor Lautner.[28]

In 2016, Collins was part of a pilot produced for The Last Tycoon, loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's last book The Last Tycoon. She played Cecelia Brady, daughter of Pat Brady, who was played by Kelsey Grammer. Amazon picked up the pilot to series on 27 July 2016 but later cancelled their plans for a second season in September in 2017.[37]

In March 2016, Collins joined the anorexia drama film To the Bone in the lead role, written and directed by Marti Noxon.[38] The film follows Ellen or Eli, a 20 year old woman suffering from anorexia nervosa. It premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2017, as a contender in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. It was released worldwide on Netflix on July 14, 2017. When the film was first released on Netflix there was some controversy about whether the film would be triggering for those with eating disorders.[39] This controversy was also influenced by another Netflix original show 13 Reasons Why after it was accused of glamouring suicide.[40][41] Despite the taboo topic of the movie, Collins depiction of Ellen by described as "exemplary work from Lily Collins in the central role"[42]. Justin Chang of Los Angeles Times wrote that "In a different film, Ellen’s sharp tongue might have made her an insufferable fount of wisecracking negativity, but Collins’ performance is subtler than that, and the script gives her ample opportunity to reveal the character's more complicated, vulnerable edges."[43]

On August 30, 2017 Collins was cast to co-star with Nicholas Hoult as Edith Tolkien, love and later wife of Tolkien, who was also the inspiration for Lúthien in The Silmarillion.[48] They began filming in October and wrapped in December.[49] The film is set to be released on May 10 2019.[50]

It was announced in April 2018 that Collins would be starring in Hope Dickson Leach’s ‘The Cradle’, along side Jack O'Connell[51]

In 2017 it was revealed that Les Misérables would be adapted by Andrew Davies and directed by Tom Shankland into a BBC mini series starring, Dominic West, David Oyelowo, and Lily Collins.[52] Collins would star as Fantine, a young woman in Paris that becomes pregnant by a rich student who later abandons them, forcing her to look after their child, Cosette, on her own. They began filming the series in February 2018 in Belgium and Northern France.[53]

Critics and fans praised Collins' performance as Fantine, Alexandra Pollard of The Independent praised her performance, writing "she plays the tragic Fantine with steeliness and grace", and described it as "magnificent."[54] Another critic stated that "Lily Collins does not sing her anguished soul out when she is abandoned by her lover. So much so, she impressed me from the get-go with her emotionally rich performance and has successfully overridden Hathaway’s nightmarish version"[55]. Fans of the show were left "traumatised" by one of the more gruesome scenes of the show but were quick to single out Collins' "powerful performance" in the episode as she portrayed the fall of Fantine.[56]

Personal life

Collins stated in 2013 that she does not like to discuss the interest in her relationships publicly due to witnessing the difficulties caused by the media coverage of her parents' divorce.[57]